Healhty Care

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Taking care of your skin can be quite a daunting task. It
requires time and necessary products, but the payoff leaves your skin
healthy, moisturized and protected all the time. People always seem to
turn heads when sunlight reveals a smooth and beautiful layer of vibrant
skin. Many people, however, aren't typically attracted to visible
layers of hair on the arms and legs for young girls and women. So
naturally women take care of this surface nuisance by shaving their
desired areas to uncover smooth and sleek skin.

It's important for
every woman to keep their appearance clean and refreshed by shaving on a
regular basis. Perfecting the technique of shaving cleanly may not be
so black and white. Many small tasks can be used to get a better,
cleaner, and faster shave. If proper steps aren't met, razor burns are a
typical result. These razor burns manifest themselves as red bumps or
small lacerations on the legs or arms. Applying a simple moisturizer
with healing components can reduce these irritating effects. Ideally
before starting any shave, it's best to take a warm shower beforehand.
The warm water works to relax the skin and open up the microscopic pores
that house the hair follicles. As these pores widen the follicles
become less rigid and thus provide a smoother surface to work with.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Having 2 disabled children who have miraculously reached their
mid-30's and having kept myself out of the snake pit and the abyss up
until now, I've been asked to share my secrets for not only surviving,
but growing into my fuller spiritual potential.

Dealing with
disabilities in children is one of the most harrowing, difficult,
heart-breaking challenges on the planet - if you dare to care. Yet it is
juxtaposed by the most illuminating, gracious and heart-felt
experiences you could ever know. If you simply look deep into the eyes
of the disabled or their parents you can feel God.

The truly great
on earth are those who accept their less than perfect lot with simple,
elegant grace. And those dedicated to serving them are the queens and
kings among us. Having spent chunks of time in the realm of life and
death knowing other brave disabled children and their heroic parents and
caretakers, has truly been a gift that always makes me resist getting
back to the "real world" of glitz, glam and gossip.

Its always
been at the most difficult, white knuckle time that gems of how to cope,
let go, advocate or live in the moment reveal themselves. So let me
share the top 10 tips that I've learned and continue to cultivate.

1.
Always take care of yourself first - for all the obvious and
intelligent reasons. Your disabled child needs you to be strong and
happy, not weak and resentful.